Talk:List of stories featuring nuclear pulse propulsion
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Other forms of nuclear pulse propulsion
editThe "other forms" section is empty because neither nuclear pulse propulsion nor Project Daedalus nor Project Longshot had fiction-reference lists. Stories featuring variants of these have been written, but I'm completely blanking on title/author information for the ones I've read. Additions to the list are appreciated. --Christopher Thomas 17:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Where are Azimov's stories?
editThe original Foundation novel had atomic powered ships in them run by a sect of priests, and many of his early short stories featured atomic powered ships. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.30.13 (talk) 18:23, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
(Anathem )
editAnathem by Neal Stephenson are mentioned twice in the list. I must get stuff done before tomorrow, so please fix it someone who knows what to do. :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.181.162.231 (talk) 00:45, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
- The edit of 22:56, 14 December 2009, 2 weeks later by AdmiralSenn was summarized "Books: merged double reference regarding Anathem"; it collapsed two non-adjacent 'graphs into one. It'd be easier now, with the diff-link, than any time in the last 6 years, to check whether a good job was done.
--Jerzy•t 04:58, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
"Hard" science-fiction should be de-emphasized
editWhile many stories (particularly 1960s-era novels) mention Orion-type drives, said propulsion mechanisms do not exclusively dominate SF literature, anime or film. Broadly speaking, any fictional spacecraft "engine" positioned technologically between chemical propellant and warp-drive (or anything similarly esoteric) is likely to qualify if described as "nuclear" or "antimatter".--Mike18xx (talk) 11:37, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Anime Reference Errors
editAs an avid Anime viewer and propulsion fanatic I must note that the entries on Nadia and Zeta Gundam are incorrect. While the GRYPS-2 colony laser does indeed have nuclear pulse engines, the Axis battleships are all Gwazine and similar class ships and as such use traditional thermonuclear rocket engines (using nuclear reactors to heat liquid hydrogen and use it for thrust, thus literally thermo-nuclear). The Nautilus's drive system is much more akin to a warp core from Star Trek than it is to anything Orion-based. It's a matter-antimatter annihilation reactor, not a matter-antimatter pulse engine. As such, I have removed the offending entries. 98.210.48.86 (talk) 08:11, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
While fact-checking Axis's position in the solar system for a different entry I noticed that Axis itself does in fact use nuclear pulse propulsion though its fleet of battleships does not. I have changed the entry once more to reflect this discovery which may have been the original intention of the person who wrote the entry in the first place. 98.210.48.86 (talk) 10:14, 20 January 2013 (UTC)